HobbitFoot

I have a couple of aunts that I can have deep conversations with. I also get along with some of my cousins. I'll say that my family isn't as hierarchical as other families are.

Ford gave up all car production except for the Mustang, focusing on trucks and SUV's. Since the late 70's, the US auto industry has shown that it is unable to make small cars with low margins like other countries.

If the Big 3 suffered consequences, they would be the Bug 2 or the Big 1 by now.

Until you started seeing reformations where the enemy became other kinds of Christianity.

I wouldn't say that feudalism "perfected" slavery. It can be argued that chattel slavery a few centuries later made it more effective.

However, feudalism did well in controlling the food surplus and paying the military at a time when the organizational ability to control wide swaths of land had diminished. Mentioning Japan as an outlier in time, feudalism also brought a lot of political stability by locking down society.

However, as you noted, capitalism was the enemy of feudalism. Capitalism could organize itself in ways that feudalism never could and made capital investments both easier and more lucrative.

I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.

Not everyone is compatible to be in a happy marriage and not everyone who is compatible is with someone they are compatible with.

There are also some fields that attract a kind of guy who sees himself as a provider for his family first and foremost, leaving his wife to perform the familial labor. This separation of work can lead to some unhappy marriages lasting longer than others.

Computer UI has been made to follow mobile UI when the two have very different sets of constraints. It is ok for a computer program to look cluttered; that's how you can access everything easily.

I upvoted this because you are wrong, you have bad taste, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

We did until they realized it is cheaper to shape public opinion than it is to pay their fair share.

The discussion I started was never about being an expert of something, just having a basic understanding. You chose to inflate having an understanding of an idea to being an expert.

I've also discussed cases where the expert level execution requires a lot of non verbal skills, but those experts can still describe the basic underpinnings of what they are doing.

However, unless someone has a severe communication disability, they should be able to communicate the basics of their knowledge. If they can't explain it, maybe they don't understand it enough to grasp the science behind why things are the way they are.

If you want to use cooking for example, a cook might understand how to use a recipe without understanding why the recipe requires certain ingredients or techniques. A cook could understand how to make a béchemel sauce without understanding what an emulsion is, what chemical reactions cause a successful emulsion, and which flavors propagate well in that kind of sauce. Being able to cook a béchemel sauce doesn't mean you understand what a béchemel sauce is.

Even if it is a bad choice, I'd rather be part of a bad choice than not.

Using your cooking analogy, what I'm talking about are people who can't even describe the basics of how to cook.

What ingredients do you need to bake bread? I don't know.

What cooking equipment do you need to bake bread? I don't know.

About how long will it take to bake bread and when do you need to start? I don't know.

I'm not talking about how to communicate being an expert at a craft and teaching it to someone else, I'm talking about understanding the basics.